"But since you have discovered us" he did not finish.
"We'll make him pay for it," said Dan Baxter. "I've been waiting to square accounts for a long time."
"How did you escape from that island, Dan?" asked Dick curiously.
"A ship came along about a week after you left it."
"I see. And did you come right through to here?"
"That is my business, Dick Rover. But I came to help my father, I don't mind telling you that."
"Then you knew he had escaped from prison?"
"From the hospital, yes."
"And did you know he had robbed our house?"
"He took what belonged to him, Dick Rover. Your folks robbed him of that mine in the West."
"Well, I won't argue the point, Dan Baxter." Dick got up and moved toward the door. "I think I'll go."
"Will you!" cried both of the Baxters, in a breath, and seizing him they forced him back into the corner.
